Summary: Toward Representative Internet Measurements
Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan
Dept. of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Anees Shaikh
Networking and Policy Technologies
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY 10532
I. INTRODUCTION
Efforts to characterize and understand the structure and
behavior of the Internet have a long history in the network
research community. Though our understanding of the network
has evolved, our knowledge of its configuration, workload,
and failure modes still is far from complete. Characterizing
the operation of the current Internet infrastructure and its
usage patterns is essential to improve the understanding of
the Internet and shape its future.
Despite the numerous studies of Internet properties, there
has been little work to understand how to measure the network